Sydney CIO Executive Summit

Exclusive to community members, this "open house" style reception is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

Getting a modern identity strategy right is a tough gig. Legacy identity providers are everywhere, disjointed MFA solutions, script-driven joiner/mover/leaver approaches and constantly evolving business requirements are pervasive. Business leaders need to unify identity silos, simplify IAM and enable secure access to any technology. Many organisations are overwhelmed by the task ahead, and unsure how to break down the job of improving their IAM strategy into actionable steps. In this presentation, we will discuss some of the most important considerations as you chart the path forward.

Join this session to explore:

• Steps for moving off legacy identity solutions (and from on-premises to the cloud)
• Automating joiners, movers, and leavers
• Managing third-party access & shadow IT

Third parties expose businesses to strategic, operational, financial, and compliance risks. Moreover, leaders have less visibility into third parties than into their own businesses. For many organisations, the pandemic exposed the fragility of the organisation’s third-party network and impressed the need to flex quickly to new third and fourth parties in the extended enterprise to meet demand without increasing risk exposure.

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• Standardising third-party risk management assessments to be used by business units       
• Maintaining visibility of all ongoing third-party relationships
• Identifying and mitigating the risks of the third-party network

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CxOs).

Three-quarters of Australian security leaders see human error as their organisation’s biggest cyber vulnerability. Today employees are exposed to threats at unprecedented and unacceptable levels, especially through email. The security industry has responded with training to educate users to make better decisions and reporting to identify targeted and risky employees. However, the real desired outcome is significantly less user exposure in the first place.  Learn how organisations can leverage advanced behavioural science and automation for precise decision-making on what is good and what is bad email.

 In this session we will discuss:

• Account takeover techniques and measures that can be taken to help protect against them
• New insights and controls over protecting against supply chain attacks
• The accuracy of advanced behavioural data science in identifying anomalous behaviour
• The extent to which organisations are able to reduce user exposure

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CxOs).

Digital transformation is a powerful business enabler that is compelling leaders to fundamentally change their technology ecosystems. The potential of technology to unlock value and drive progress has never been greater and the imperative to transform your business, securely, has never been more urgent. With data, users, and devices everywhere, how can technology leaders reimagine cybersecurity in a world without boundaries?

Join this keynote to hear strategies on:

• Accelerating transformation with innovative security services, and communicating their value to the business
• Scaling and simplifying security across the organisation, minimising risk, and gaining agility
• Protecting today's cloud-first, hybrid workforce with a proactive, intelligent, and radically simple security architecture

What do enterprises who’ve adopted cloud successfully have in common? In this session, Phil Le-Brun, a Director of Enterprise Strategist at AWS, will share what he’s learned advising executives of AWS’s largest customers, in addition to his first-hand experience planning, leading, and executing successful IT initiatives in his former role as International CIO and Corporate VP of Global Technology Development at McDonald’s. We’ll take a look at strategies based on real-world experience for how to motivate and re-skill existing employees, do more with less, and organise teams to be as successful as possible, as quickly as possible.

In this session, we’ll cover how to:

• Turn nay-sayers and doubters into allies
• Build momentum in your transformation through small wins that deliver big results
• Creating an environment that encourages calculated risk-taking and growth

Whether you are a government-labelled critical infrastructure entity or not, in a digital world, every connected ‘asset’ becomes critical. What matters most is who has access and what can be done with that access. Identities enable access and can be found everywhere in modern distributed business and IT environments. In addition, the rise of machine identities – used in automated processes and connected devices and often running into hundreds of thousands per organization – has driven a build-up of cybersecurity “debt”, leaving organisations exposed to highly increased cyber risk. 

It only takes one compromised identity for a threat actor or malicious insider to launch an attack. The question is how can businesses continue to grow at scale, while protecting critical assets and business services?

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• The consequences of compromised identities, including examples from recent cyber attacks
• How the need for digital transformation can be balanced with the requirement to secure modern business operations?
• What is an effective approach to recognising and reducing Cyber Risk? What’s the role of Zero Trust?

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CxOs).

In any trusting relationship, all parties know that they can rely on the other to treat them — and any sensitive information they choose to disclose — ethically and with respect. If Technology Leaders are to enable their organisations to earn and retain the digital trust of all stakeholders, especially external customers, they must give confidence in the reliability of their technology systems and the services it delivers. In times of ongoing uncertainty, it’s never been more critical for the CISO and CIO to earn stakeholder trust so that they can seamlessly and consistently safeguard people, privacy, and data to enable digital business. 

Join this Town Hall to discuss:

• How to build trust and balance security demands
• How to accelerate speed to market by building trusted digital experiences
• How CISOs and CIOs can deliver digital customer and workforce experiences that stand out from the crowd

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CxOs).

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Organisations are continuing their journeys into digital business, and IT needs to transform the way service and operations are delivered by building new digital capabilities, driving continuous innovation, and leveraging a data-driven approach. For such an ambitious journey, it’s important for IT leaders to identify what an effective data management program looks like and how data and analytics can support expanding their digital business and increasing their D&A maturity.

Join this session for thoughts and learnings on how to:

• Use analytics as a driver for bigger business and stronger customer value
• Future proof the workplace with data-driven strategies
• Build an outcome-focused data strategy

Companies are increasingly dependent on vast networks of third parties which makes it difficult to monitor the level of exposure these risks pose to the organisation. Perfect monitoring of all third parties, especially at a global scale is impossible with limited resources. However, a proper third-party risk management program can be the lifesaving measure your business needs when your partners are under attack.

Join this session to discuss:

• Prioritising your vendor inventory for assessment
• Leveraging automation for calculating risk and streamlining the review process
• Expanding third-party risk conversations beyond cybersecurity 

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CxOs).

Successful cloud transformations require highly skilled people, but cloud skills are in high demand and the market for these skills is competitive. What strategies for recruiting and retaining top talent are working, and how do CIOs motivate and re-skill existing employees so they can be as successful as possible, as quickly as possible?

Join this session to discuss how to:

• Practically up-skill existing employees with what they need to succeed
• Develop an organisation that sees learning as a competitive advantage
• Create space for reskilling

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CxOs).

At the very top of the world, as in the business world, constant change means we’re all navigating new terrain. Come together and bounce back from the greatest disruptive event of our generation, while being inspired by 3x world record-breaking adventurer Daniel Bull. He shares powerful and practical strategies learnt from Everest to Antarctica and beyond while empowering you to defy limits, grasp opportunities, and conquer your own mountains – in work and in life.

Daniel will share:

• Proven strategies for dealing with unrelenting change
• Powerful insights on courageous leadership in the face of ongoing uncertainty
• What it takes to reach the top – adopting a growth mindset and boosting resilience despite epic challenges